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MARIAN VAN NESS turned restlessly away from the window as her old servant came into the sitting room.
"Are you quite sure no telephone call has come for me, Mammy? " she asked with gentle insistence. Mammy's antipathy to the telephone was known to her; on occasions she had not answered it in Marian's absence, having confided to the cook in the next apartment that it was little short of uncanny and she wanted nothing to do with the "devil's works."